Roddy Piper Quotes

I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm damn well gonna do it!

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.

I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready.

When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

If you want to do things – to change things – you must run the risk of not succeeding.

In order to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

I don’t care about risk, honestly. The riskiest thing to do is not to act. I would far rather try and fail than fail not trying.

The only person that ever stumbles is a guy moving forward. You don't stumble backwards; you stumble forward, and you never stumble when you're stationary. So don't worry about stumbling. Keep pushing it forward.

It's better to have tried and failed than never tried, you can rest easy knowing you gave it a go.

It's one thing to speak about it and another to actually do something about it.

Embrace the fear and go for it. That's what I do. I don't run from it - I embrace the fear.

Start marching forward, even when into the new and unknown, and don't be deterred by obstacles.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.

There's a point when you go with what you've got. Or you don't go.

There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.

You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

In order to succeed... you have to put a stake in the ground.